Creating folders for non users

[Bob Marcan]

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:54:18 +0200
Nikos Gatsis <ngatsis at qbit.gr> wrote:

> That won't cause any trouble to new users?
> 
> Bob Marcan wrote:
> > On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:05:38 +0200
> > Nikos Gatsis <ngatsis at qbit.gr> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> Hello list.
> >> I have a strange problem, with cyrus.
> >> If system receive a message for a non existing user, cyrus creating this 
> >> user and folders inbox,send etc.
> >>
> >> I use sendmail-8.14.2-1.fc8 and cyrus-imapd-2.3.9-7.fc8.
> >>
> >> My imapd.conf is:
> >>
> >> configdirectory: /var/lib/imap
> >> partition-default: /var/spool/imap
> >> admins: cyrus admin
> >> allowanonymouslogin: no
> >> allowplaintext: yes
> >> anyoneuseracl: 0
> >> autocreatequota: 20480
> >> quotawarn: 90
> >>     
> >
> >   
> >> createonpost: yes
> >>     
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > imapd.conf.5
> > createonpost: 0
> > 		  If  yes,  when  lmtpd  receives an incoming mail for an INBOX that
> > 		  does not exist, then the INBOX is automatically created by  lmtpd.
> >
> >   
> >> autocreateinboxfolders: Sent|Drafts|Trash

Depends.
1. Add new user with cyradm.
    autocreateinboxfolders will still create mailboxes

2. If you want to use this feature, prevent delivery to nonexistent
    cyrus user at MTA level.
Regards, Bob

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